Hacker News Who is Hiring Scraper: Jobs, Emails & Salary

What it does

The monthly Hacker News "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" threads turned into structured rows: company, domain, roles, tech stack, remote policy, Latin America eligibility, salary as numbers, visa sponsorship, contact emails and apply links. Or one deduplicated row per hiring company across any months since April 2011.

{
  "rowType": "post",
  "postId": "49613617",
  "postUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49613617",
  "storyTitle": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)",
  "month": "2026-09",
  "author": "hn_user",
  "company": "Search Atlas",
  "domain": "searchatlas.com",
  "roles": ["Product Engineer"],
  "employmentTypes": ["full-time", "contract"],
  "stack": ["TypeScript", "Python", "React", "Django", "LLMs"],
  "remote": true,
  "remoteRegions": ["worldwide"],
  "latamEligible": true,
  "latamSignals": ["remote:worldwide"],
  "salaryMin": 23,
  "salaryMax": 34,
  "salaryCurrency": "USD",
  "salaryPeriod": "hour",
  "visaSponsorship": null,
  "contactEmails": ["first.last@example.com"],
  "personalEmailsHidden": 0,
  "emailPattern": { "pattern": "first.last", "confidence": 0.5, "inferred": false, "mxValid": true, "catchAll": null, "charged": true }
}

Why this one

Use cases

• Find remote engineering jobs with salary, time zones and the apply link, month by month.
• List companies hiring repeatedly over a year, with the months they posted and their stack.
• Research startup salary bands by currency and period across thousands of posts.
• Filter posts open to Latin American candidates, with the evidence for each decision.

Input

Every field has a default, and the defaults are deliberately small so a first run is cheap enough to inspect before you commit to a sweep. This table mirrors the Actor's own input schema field for field.

Output and fill rates

A field being in the schema is not the same as it having a value. The percentages below were counted on real runs; the sample sizes are in Measurements. Anything not listed here is not promised.

Every key is always present. A field that exists but is empty comes back as explicit null, so a parser never has to guess.

Datasets

Different record types go to different datasets, so the main table never carries columns that are blank on most rows.

Pricing

Pay per delivered result. Charges are applied as each row is produced rather than in a lump at the end, so an aborted run bills only for what it actually gave you.

Measurements

Each figure is shown with the method that produced it. A benchmark without a method is a marketing claim wearing a number's clothes.

What it will not do

Stated plainly so you can judge fit before spending anything.

• Posts are free text: roles are found on 76%, stack on 63% and a salary range on 37% of 848 posts, and the rest are null rather than guessed.
• The current month's thread grows for days after it opens: about 100 posts on 1 October 2026, against 254 for the whole of September 2026.
• The freelancer thread was last posted in October 2025, so recent months have none.
• Pattern-backed email formats are rare: 4 of 480 domains in the measured sample and 15 of 1,510 over twelve months.
• The Actor depends on the Algolia HN Search API; if that public API changes or is withdrawn the Actor fails with a clear error rather than switching source.

Privacy

• Corporate and role addresses posted by a company are delivered as published.
• Personal-domain addresses are removed from `contactEmails` and hidden in `rawText` and `rawHtml` unless `includePersonalEmails` is on.
• Who wants to be hired and SEEKING WORK posts are individuals: both threads are off by default, and their emails, phone numbers and CV links are hidden unless the operator opts in.
• The Hacker News username of each post's author is delivered as shown on the site.
• The email pattern never uses personal emails and does not construct addresses for individuals; no email is sent and no mail server is probed.
• Removal requests: privacy@actorstack.dev

See also the data removal process.

Guides for this Actor

• HN Who is Hiring dataThe monthly Who is Hiring thread is free text with a convention. How it becomes rows, how often each field can be parsed, and what is withheld because some posts are people.